Kostya Kostyushko is a seasoned CTO and startup builder with over two decades of hands-on experience and 13 years in senior leadership, known for leading multiple startups to successful exits and scaling high-traffic, production-grade systems. He specializes in NodeJS/NextJS and React for the last decade but brings broad expertise across microservices, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD and API-driven architectures. Kostya excels at creating teams and processes from scratch—hiring senior remote engineers, instituting documentation and delivery flows, and aligning technical strategy with business outcomes. His track record includes building cloud-native marketplaces, AI-driven recognition systems, and mission-critical platforms handling millions of items daily. Based in Málaga and operating as a fractional CTO, he blends pragmatic engineering with budget-conscious automation and a talent for turning messy legacy stacks into well-documented, scalable products.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Primary and Secondary school N 114 of Kiev
Network and System Administration/Administrator, Network and System Administration/Administrator at College for professional training N 41
Not finished - Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Not finished - Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute of Ukraine
Creates a generic REST API for a postgres database using restify.
Contributions:28 PRs, 31 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 11 months
apipostgres-databaserestifygenericdatabase
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